Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 140
“Oh, can’t he just!”
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ca | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 ca | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ca | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ! | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 ! | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ca | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ca | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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